Tom shales biography

Tom Shales has died. As a professional TV critic for The Washington Post for more than 30 years, Shales was one of the leading voices in pop culture criticism in the s, ’90s, and beyond, winning the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism in for his work.

His death was made public on social media on Saturday by fellow author James Andrew Miller, with whom Shales wrote two books: Those Guys Have All The Fun, an oral history of ESPN published in , and Live From New York, a massive page oral history of Saturday Night Live that still stands, more than 20 years later, as one of the definitive texts on the show’s history.

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Born in Illinois, Shales started his career in radio, working as a disc jockey and reporter, before moving into print, securing his spot as the Post’s chief television critic in Syndication brought Shales more widespread fame and recognition, and he would hold his position a